Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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• thaumaturgy · May 16, 2008 · Recommends

  …to be a climber, but what's it doing on that list? Then, there are the many titles not found on the list. How about "The Decameron", for one? "Pale Blue Dot"? "A Brief History of Time"? "Cosmos"? "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"? And, I'd argue that reading should be done as much for enjoyment as for edification. So, why not some "Calvin and Hobbes"? Or "Words I Wish I Wrote"? Or some Neil Gaiman or Greg Bear or George RR Martin?…

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• vaidhy · Nov 7, 2022 · Recommends

  …as you anticipate. 4. It is easier if you are not married. Getting back into tech industry is both easier and harder than you would expect. My go-to books for these kind of questions have been [1] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22535/22535-h/22535-h.htm) [2] Stray Birds by Tagore (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6524) Please dm me if you just want to talk about it and best of luck.

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• robtani · May 11, 2018 · Recommends

  The one that comes to mind above all else for me is the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" written by the great Persian mathematician, philosopher, polymath Khayyam in the 11'th century. His perspectives on life and death ever so eloquently painted in words are amazing!! Just wish I could…

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• bigyabai · Oct 2, 2025 · Recommends

  …forever killing each other, and sticking knives in each other, and burning babies - and the world has had to suffer with this. Great things have come out of the Middle East - great things like the *Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* - but *stupidity* seems to be your chief export! Stupidity, and violence, are your cash crops. All you.

• chmielewski · Aug 1, 2014 · Mentions

  …further reading suggestions, and historical references. It focuses on the actual history of magic (be it Kabalistic or Enochian) instead of trying to legitimize it. In fact, it quite debunks "magic". The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald's translation) After much study and reading multiple translations of this book, I'm currently reading one quatrain each day and committing it to memory. I so far cannot help but think…

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• hodgesrm · Sep 14, 2021 · Mentions

  …conceivable that Baudelaire made a few improvements. It's certainly not unheard of. Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam is by some accounts close to an original work. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam

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• emmelaich · Nov 24, 2012 · Mentions

  …http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/riddle-on-the-sands-20121119... Unfortunately the evidence is that decryption might depend on either a unavailable first edition of the Enlgish translation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam and/or information from a person who died in 2007.

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• ajb · Jan 17, 2026 · Mentions

  Don't know it, but this website attributes it to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: https://theomarkhayyamclubofamerica.wordpress.com/extended-r... (Edited on reading more closely) Or possibly some fan work, since this "Extended Rubaiyat" isn't entirely from Omar Khayyam. So this doesn't…

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